⚡ Web Servers in Kenya

Web servers are specialized computer programs that process requests from users' browsers to websites on the Internet and deliver web content by serving files such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and media assets.

Kenya is an East African country with a population of over 55 million people.

According to our statistics, web servers are detected on 75.9% of websites from Kenya.

Statistics based on 2K+ analyzed websites. About this data

⭐ Most Popular in 2026

The following chart shows the top web servers in Kenya in 2026, based on market share.

The most popular is LiteSpeed Web Server with an impressive share of 39.5%, followed by Apache with 37.1% and Nginx with 23.7%.

LiteSpeed Web Server 39.5%
Apache 37.1%
Nginx 23.7%
Microsoft IIS 1.8%
Tomcat 1%
OpenResty 0.9%
Caddy 0.3%
Kestrel 0.2%
Phusion Passenger 0.2%
Gunicorn 0.1%
Google Host Server 0.1%
Google Servlet Engine 0.05%

🚀 Highlights

Here is a list of the top servers that are more popular in Kenya than worldwide.
Differences between global and country rankings are shown in parentheses.

1. LiteSpeed Web Server ^(-2)
5. Tomcat ^(-1)
9. Phusion Passenger ^(-3)
10. Gunicorn ^(-4)

✨ Best Web Servers

Below is a more detailed list of 12 web servers used on sites from Kenya, ranked by their market share.

Rank	Name	Market share
1	LiteSpeed Web Server Newtown Square, Pennsylvania, United States A high-performance commercial web server that can operate as a drop-in replacement for Apache, using the same configuration files and control panel integrations. FreeOpen source$10+/month	39.5%
2	Apache Wilmington, Delaware, United States A cross-platform open-source web server that has been available since 1995. FreeOpen source	37.1%
3	Nginx Seattle, Washington, United States A lightweight, high-performance open-source HTTP server and reverse proxy designed for handling large volumes of concurrent connections with low memory usage. FreeOpen source$3,500+/year	23.7%
4	Microsoft IIS Redmond, Washington, United States An extensible web server developed by Microsoft for Windows systems. Free$$$	1.8%
5	Tomcat Wilmington, Delaware, United States An open-source Java application server that implements the Jakarta Servlet, Jakarta Server Pages, Jakarta Expression Language, and Jakarta WebSocket specifications. FreeOpen source	1%
6	OpenResty Millbrae, California, United States An Nginx distribution that bundles the LuaJIT interpreter to run Lua scripts directly inside the web server. FreeOpen source	0.9%
7	Caddy Vienna, Austria An open-source multi-platform web server written in Go with built-in support for automatic HTTPS and modern web protocols. FreeOpen source	0.3%
8	Kestrel Redmond, Washington, United States An open-source, cross-platform web server for ASP.NET Core that can serve HTTP requests on Windows, Linux, and macOS. FreeOpen source	0.2%
9	Phusion Passenger Apeldoorn, Netherlands Phusion Passenger a fast and robust web server and application server for Ruby, Python and Node.js. FreeOpen source$44.56+/month	0.2%
10	Gunicorn Creil, France A Python WSGI HTTP server for UNIX, a pre-fork worker model ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. FreeOpen source	0.1%
11	Google Host Server Mountain View, California, United States A proprietary web server software used by Google for its web infrastructure.	0.1%
12	Google Servlet Engine Mountain View, California, United States A fast, lightweight engine for running Java servlets, developed and used by Google.	0.05%

👉 See Also

🌎 Web Servers in other countries

🗃️ About This Data

We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
This report is based on the analysis of 2,690 websites from Kenya.
We currently track the presence of 40 web servers across the web.
Of these, 12 were detected on websites from Kenya.
Statistics were last calculated on September 15, 2026.
For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.